Lap top fault - blue screen

[Aston]

hi
my laptop is showing a blue screen fault..i think i have found the cause ntkrnlpa.exe (whatever that is lol)
its a dell and its 5 years old now. would you lot think about replacing it now or get it fixed AND if i do replace it, would apple mac be the way forward?

any help appreciated
ps if dans havin a lie in, give him a nudge and tell him to take a look at this thread :smilewinkgrin:

 

[John Benton]

Ed, you should look at the life expectancy to be 4-5 years maximum of your hardware. As the software progresses the hardware also needs to be able to cope.

I moved to a Mac and never looked back. The hardware and software are developed by the same company as oppose to PCs and laptops which run a 3rd party Operating System i.e.Windows, so inevitably there are going be problems. Where do you turn? Hardware blames software and software blames hardware and you are left with a PC that's not working.

The Mac OS is much more stable, far less targeted for viruses, trojans, hackers etc. I have never had my Mac hang on me yet. Not had one single error message.

I think this is worth paying the extra money for a Mac, at least double, but you won't have any much downtime, if any, and that is worth it's weight in gold

 

[Aston]

thanks mate, really appreciate the advice.
i think its time to take a bite out of the apple!! as you say 5 years is about time to change so theres no point throwing good money after bad.

 

[John Benton]

thanks mate, really appreciate the advice.
i think its time to take a bite out of the apple!! as you say 5 years is about time to change so theres no point throwing good money after bad.

No probs Ed, I'm pretty sure that Dan is a Mac user and he will probably qualify what I said in my post. I'm not 100% but I've never seen the Apple Macs in a sale, their resellers are under very stringent rules as to discounts they can give on their products. When I researched what to buy, everywhere I went, net and high street the same Mac was the same price everywhere. So don't waste time looking round, just be sure to buy through a respected outlet.

 

[Alan.P]

A Google of the fault suggests it's something to do with hibernation, does only happen when you try and wake it from sleep, as for transition from Windows to Mac, each to their own.